"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Have you sat by a stream
lost in its flow over the pebbles
and then found your true self?
Have you looked into a campfire
watched the flames dance away
and seen stories of your life in the embers?
Sun Seeds makes boundaries between the inside and the outside, me and the other, dissolve.
It situates you in the stillness of now.
And, when the dark past threatens to pull you down…
See the seeds of hope take root
and to the light, carve their route.
NANDINI KARKY
Nandini Karky, a once-reluctant engineer, has always been a poet at heart. Whether she was dabbling with circuits as an electronics and communication student in the College of Engineering, Guindy, or tinkering with code as a software professional in Minneapolis, it was the intangible questions of life that kept beckoning her. Over the years, she kept the curiosity alive by sharing her reflections on social media and blogs. Sun Seeds is her first collection of poetry published as a book.
For Nandini, the bridge between the world of engineering and writing happened through a career in translation. Completing her certification in Subtitling from the Netherlands, she founded Subemy, a subtitling firm, which translates Tamil movies for English audiences. She believes that all forms of writing are, at the core, a form of translation, a way of capturing abstract inspirations and conveying it in the real language of the world. Nandini Karky lives and works in Chennai. Fuelled by her passion for nature and culture, she has travelled to all seven continents. When she’s not delighting in the laughter of African children or the walk of Antarctic penguins, she travels to the past to interpret two-thousand-year-old Tamil classical poetry for the twenty-first century, through her podcast Sangam Lit.
